If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation.

I heard sad choirs in my mind. There was nothing left of Rachel in the world. He cherished what he'd shown me, and now it was gone. Eureka.

It seems like in the beginning of my flight, the space dreams were rare. And now, almost 150 days into it, the Earth dreams are more of the rare ones.

We don't do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water's at a premium up here. Plus, it'd be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it.

The majority of astronauts have to change their eyeglasses while in space. They bring eyeglasses with them and typically change a few months into the mission.

Flying in space is a privilege, whether it's the first time or the fourth time.

It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

For a degenerate like me, Vegas is like a walk down memory lane. Last time I went to Vegas, I went to my old coke dealer's kid's bar mitzvah.

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.

You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.

Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.